Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

Opposite the English Stones is a new resort, called Severn Beach, which it is hoped to develop. The G. W. R. has erected a station 200 yards from the shore. The shingle beach extends for about a mile and a half along the bank of the Severn.

The deep but narrow bed of the river between the English Stones and the Welsh Grounds, extending out from the Monmouthshire shore, is known as the Shoots, from the rapidity of the tidal water courses through this contracted channel. With a stretch of water some three miles in breath, one is apt to believe that a middle course may be safely steered, but woe betide the mariner who attempts the experiment here.

A £50,000,000 [equivalent to £2,576,204,414.93 in Janurary 2025] scheme for a barrage across the River Severn has been recommended by the Committee of the Economic Advisory Council appointed in October, 1925. The committee reports in favour of the barrage at the point  known as English Stones, on a line approimately parallel to the existing Severn Tunnel, the scheme embracing the construction of an electric power station and road and rail crossings with harbour facilities.